Ed Emory | |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1937 |
Birth Place: | Lancaster, South Carolina, U.S. |
Death Place: | Wadesboro, North Carolina, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 1957–1959 |
Player Team1: | East Carolina |
Player Positions: | Guard |
Coach Years1: | 1960–1962 |
Coach Team1: | Kinston HS (NC) (assistant) |
Coach Years2: | 1963–1966 |
Coach Team2: | Wadesboro HS (NC) |
Coach Years3: | 1967 |
Coach Team3: | Bowman HS (NC) |
Coach Years4: | 1968 |
Coach Team4: | Wake Forest (assistant) |
Coach Years5: | 1969–1972 |
Coach Team5: | Brevard HS (SC) |
Coach Years6: | 1973 |
Coach Team6: | Clemson (JV coordinator) |
Coach Years7: | 1974–1975 |
Coach Team7: | Clemson (RB) |
Coach Years8: | 1976 |
Coach Team8: | Clemson (OL) |
Coach Years9: | 1978–1979 |
Coach Team9: | Georgia Tech (DL/RC) |
Coach Years10: | 1980–1984 |
Coach Team10: | East Carolina |
Coach Years11: | 2001–2006 |
Coach Team11: | Richmond Senior HS (NC) |
Overall Record: | 26–29 (college) |
Edward Harrell Emory Sr. (April 14, 1937 – January 4, 2013) was an American football player and coach. He became East Carolina University's 14th head football coach in 1980. In 1983, he guided the Pirates to an 8–3 record and a #20 ranking in the Associated Press final national poll. His three losses came at the hands of Florida State, Florida, and Miami (Florida). The football team lost by a combined score of 13 points. Before coaching, Emory went to school at East Carolina College and was a three-year varsity letter winner and was third-team All-American in his senior year. He was inducted into the ECU Hall of Fame in 2003.
Emory returned to coaching at the high school level and served as head coach of the perennial North Carolina powerhouse, Richmond Senior High School in Rockingham, North Carolina, from 2001 to 2006, compiling at 77–7 record in that six-year span.[1]
Emory died at his home in Wadesboro, North Carolina on January 4, 2013.[2]